Summer love
This Summer has started and has started out great!
Terra and I have been going to New Heights Church for a few months now and we really enjoy it. Sunday night we went to the Discovery Group (basically an introductory small group to future small groups through the church) and absolutely loved it. Composed of about 25-ish people (3/4 people my age, the others are older) it’s being lead by Jim Hall (one of the pastors) and his wife Pam. Walking into a new house to meet a group of strangers is actually fun for me. We entered to find mostly adults, who I practiced my dad-jokes on (not jokes about dads, but cheesy jokes that a dad would say), who were very welcoming. Some very spiritual testimonies were shared after eating, and Terra and I left feeling very revived and excited in our faith. We really look forward to the great potential we see in relationships – our growth in Christ and fellowship with new friends.
Tonight I’m looking forward to a date night with Terra. A bike ride on the trail (weather permitting), making dinner and probably redboxing a movie. We really enjoy cooking with each other, and at our 7 month anniversary she gave me a cookbook (a legit hardback) of a lot of our favorite recipes, quotes/inside jokes, and pictures of us. I think she did it just in time for mother’s day so I could show it to my parents and g’parents who were visiting, but I don’t mind.
Current listenings:
Mat Kearney – City of Black and White
A great CD to drive to, work to, probably run to (I’m not really a big runner, but hey, I might start up again just to find out if it’s good to run to). I think Mat’s voice and musical style is very aesthetically pleasing.
Lyric sample from ‘All I have’:
Lord, I’m still trying at this my hardest
To pick us all up from a fall
Rip a little corner off the darkness
Just to crack a light in the middle of it all.
My Brightest Diamond – A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
Most enjoyable. My favorite songs at the moment are ‘Inside a boy’ and ‘To Pluto’s moon’, but the whole disc is great to have as background for reading, working, and just general project-ing.
Lyric sample from ‘Inside a boy’:
Inside a boy
I found a universe
And in his eyes
Are a thousand stars
On a dark sky
Current readings:
As my last post mentioned, I’m reading Joker One, by Donovan Campbell and I really like it. Just over 50 pages in, it’s a book that I think about when I’m not reading and a story that’s captivating, moving, and inspiring already. His writing style is so effortlessly lucid and pleasing that I initially thought, ‘Oh, I can write like this’, but then realized no, no I can’t at all.
